Filesharing Up 10% After RIAA Threatens Users

Moldy-Rutabaga writes "Technews says filesharing has gone up 10% on some sites such as Grokster since the Recording Industry Association of America's announcement on June 25 that it will start tracking down and suing users of file-sharing programs. Wayne Rosso, president of Grokster, commented 'even genocidal litigation can't stop file sharers'."

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Re:Anecdotal Evidence - not so good

[tychay]

That also reminds me of an IRC command that experienced people tell to newbies: /join #2,000 I don't know exactly how, but what it really does is leave all currently joined channel instead of joining that #2,000 channel.

That's easy. Your IRC client treats commas as a delimiter for multiple entries. So what you are doing is issuing a ":join #2" and then a ":join 0". 0 is a short cut for leaving all currently open channels (it's the channel you are join'd to when you first log in).

There were a lot of those snide commands in the old days, most of them involved obscure shortcuts to an irc clients signoff commands: "/sign operator on"